10 days ago
The Portland Press Herald
KYIV, Ukraine — Several senior Ukrainian officials, including five front-line governors, lost their jobs Tuesday in a corruption scandal plaguing President Volodymyr Zelensky’s government as it grapples with the nearly 11-month-old Russian invasion. Officials in several countries, including the United States, have demanded more accountability for the aid, given Ukraine’s rampant corruption. “It’s very hard to save the country when there’s a lot of corruption,” Andrii Borovyk, the executive director of Transparency International Ukraine, a nonprofit organization that fights corruption, told The Associated Press. Entrenched corruption long has made foreign investors and governments wary of doing business with Ukraine. It could risk sinking what so far has been bipartisan popular and political support for Ukraine from the United States.
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